<p>Expecting her first child, Kate Middleton has said that she would like to have a boy but her husband Prince William wants a girl.<br /><br /></p>.<p>31-year-old Duchess of Cambridge, who was wearing a dark green coat, chatted about her impending motherhood with the Irish Guards at St Patrick's Day parade. Guardsman Lee Wheeler, said: "I was talking to her about the baby of course. I asked her do you know if it's a girl or a boy and she said not yet". "She said, 'I'd like to have a boy and William would like a girl'," Wheeler said.<br /><br />"That's always the way. I asked her if she had any names and she said no. I said I suppose you have to stick to traditional names," he told the Duchess.<br /><br />Kate, who is around five-and-a-half months pregnant, chatted about motherhood with members of the Irish Guards after handing out St Patrick's Day shamrocks, the Mirror reported.<br /><br />During her hour-and-a-half hour visit to the regiment's Aldershot barracks the Duchess made several frank and open comments about her baby due in July.<br /><br />She said she was prepared for sleepless nights, is very excited about becoming a mum but doesn't have any definite names for her child yet.<br /><br />After presenting officers, guardsmen and the regiment's dog mascot Domhnall with their shamrocks, where she nearly slipped over getting her foot caught in a drain, she and William met a line-up of soldiers.<br /><br />Kate also chatted to Sergeant Thomas Laven who has received an Irish Guards long service medal for having good conduct for 15 years.<br /><br />Thomas, who has a seven-month-old son Theo, said, "I congratulated her on the impending birth and said you've got sleepless nights to come. She said she was prepared for it." </p>
<p>Expecting her first child, Kate Middleton has said that she would like to have a boy but her husband Prince William wants a girl.<br /><br /></p>.<p>31-year-old Duchess of Cambridge, who was wearing a dark green coat, chatted about her impending motherhood with the Irish Guards at St Patrick's Day parade. Guardsman Lee Wheeler, said: "I was talking to her about the baby of course. I asked her do you know if it's a girl or a boy and she said not yet". "She said, 'I'd like to have a boy and William would like a girl'," Wheeler said.<br /><br />"That's always the way. I asked her if she had any names and she said no. I said I suppose you have to stick to traditional names," he told the Duchess.<br /><br />Kate, who is around five-and-a-half months pregnant, chatted about motherhood with members of the Irish Guards after handing out St Patrick's Day shamrocks, the Mirror reported.<br /><br />During her hour-and-a-half hour visit to the regiment's Aldershot barracks the Duchess made several frank and open comments about her baby due in July.<br /><br />She said she was prepared for sleepless nights, is very excited about becoming a mum but doesn't have any definite names for her child yet.<br /><br />After presenting officers, guardsmen and the regiment's dog mascot Domhnall with their shamrocks, where she nearly slipped over getting her foot caught in a drain, she and William met a line-up of soldiers.<br /><br />Kate also chatted to Sergeant Thomas Laven who has received an Irish Guards long service medal for having good conduct for 15 years.<br /><br />Thomas, who has a seven-month-old son Theo, said, "I congratulated her on the impending birth and said you've got sleepless nights to come. She said she was prepared for it." </p>